Becki Newton Quotes

I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.

Becki Newton

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• My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Happy
  • Proud

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Free
  • Responsibility
  • Media

• It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Long
  • Way
  • Back

• A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.

  

  Warren Giles
  • New York
  • Papers
  • Headline

• Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Book
  • Name
  • Profound

• I can paint in jail.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • I Can
  • Paint
  • Jail

• My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Human

• We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Why
  • Know
  • Day

• Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Nature
  • Political

• We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Money
  • Night
  • Lie

• I don't like to direct myself.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Direct

• But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Work
  • Way
  • Idea

• Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish.

  

  Larry David
  • May
  • Myself
  • Jewish

• When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Really
  • Little
  • Crystal

• Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Never
  • Smart
  • Living

• Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Hope
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• The gay motes that people the sunbeams.

  

  John Milton
  • People
  • Gay

• Men are irrelevant.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Men
  • Irrelevant

• I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from – but it's not me.

  

  Iman
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty

• It's really fun to have the spotlight and feel ready for it. Not in a conceited way. But just like, 'Man, I think I'm going to give you what you need.'

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Fun

• Usually when there are a lot of layoffs, like in 2008 and 2009, business creation tends to spike. But that didn't happen right away, partly because people trying to start a business couldn't get credit.

  

  Brad D. Smith
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Adventure